{"id":33438,"date":"2015-03-21T04:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T04:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=33438"},"modified":"2015-03-21T04:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T04:34:05","slug":"%e0%b4%a8%e0%b4%be%e0%b4%b2%e0%b4%be%e0%b4%82-%e0%b4%a8%e0%b5%82%e0%b4%b1%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%b1%e0%b4%be%e0%b4%a3%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%9f%e0%b4%bf%e0%b4%b2%e0%b5%86-%e0%b4%95%e0%b5%8d%e0%b4%b0%e0%b5%88%e0%b4%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=33438","title":{"rendered":"ISIS &#8216;blows up famed 4th-century Mor Behnam monastery&#8217; in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/syrian_monastry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33439\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/syrian_monastry-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"syrian_monastry\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/syrian_monastry-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/syrian_monastry.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mar_behanam_monastry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33443\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mar_behanam_monastry-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"mar_behanam_monastry\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mar_behanam_monastry-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mar_behanam_monastry.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mor Benham monastery was captured by ISIS last July in a lightning advance that saw the militants seize control of vast swathes of northern Iraq &#8211; including the country&#8217;s second largest city, Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>The monastery was built in the 4th century by an Assyrian king named Senchareb as a penance for killing his son Behnam and daughter Sarah after they converted to Christianity.<br \/>\nThe monastery, after its establishment co<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ntinued its work and contributed greatly to the Christian world under the care of the Syriac Orthodox Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>On March 19, 2015 ISIS released photos showing the blowing up of the historic tomb of Saint Behnam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0d28\u0d3e\u0d32\u0d3e\u0d02 \u0d28\u0d42\u0d31\u0d4d\u0d31\u0d3e\u0d23\u0d4d\u0d1f\u0d3f\u0d32\u0d46 \u0d15\u0d4d\u0d30\u0d48\u0d38\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d35 \u0d2e\u0d20\u0d02 \u0d24\u0d15\u0d30\u0d4d\u200d\u0d24\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d41<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mor Benham monastery was captured by ISIS last July in a lightning advance that saw the militants seize control of vast swathes of northern Iraq &#8211; including the country&#8217;s second &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-church-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33444,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33438\/revisions\/33444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}